older and wiser ;)

Our "home" or "main" playgroup, of course, is our Wednesday playgroup, which we love. In addition to that one, over the past 2 weeks we have been graciously invited to play with a Friday playgroup. At 14 months - 2 years old, the children are all older than Russell, which (I hope) has given him the opportunity to learn from those who are older and wiser than he ;)

Like Miss Ella (and Isaac and his mommy in the background).

Caroline and Ella loved Molly's ball popper - the same one we have - so even though he's not in this picture, Russell did show the older ones how to push the button and make the balls pop. Although I'm pretty sure they could have done it without his help ;)

I haven't blogged about this, but whenever there are wheels around, Russell circles them, examining them from every angle. {I want to point out that he also plays with them the right way - as Jason says, this circling thing is just a game he plays that he hasn't told us the rules to!} He found some wheels on a walk-behind toy here, and of course had to figure them out:

We had a nice time playing and eating lunch - and Debbie baked some poppyseed bread, which was delicious! Come to think of it, I wish I had gotten a picture of that! Anyway, what a nice way to kick off our weekend.